Latest Past Events

Valentina Lunardi | “Tracing semantic change with word embeddings: the case of Christian Latin”

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

This week, we will meet from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, May 22nd in Dodd 232 and on zoom (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/9055112669?omn=92438946242). Our very own PhD Candidate Valentina Lunardi will share with us a snippet of her prospectus with a presentation tilted "Tracing semantic change with word embeddings: the case of Christian Latin".   As usual, the seminar is...

David Goldstein | An Event-Based Model for Linguistic Phylogenetics

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

This week, we will meet from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, May 15th in Dodd 232 and on zoom (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735). Our very own David Goldstein will give us a dry run of his EvoLang presentation titled "An Event-Based Model for Linguistic Phylogenetics". As usual, the seminar is accompanied by food and drinks. Please keep in mind that the seminar might move online if circumstances...

Klaus | Vedic suffix ablaut is prosodically-driven vowel deletion, not proterokinesis

Due to the campus circumstances of last week and this week, we will only meet on Zoom from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, May 8th (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99144412104?pwd=Q3BMUlhEaUhwUHp1WUtENTYxSzlkZz09).   This week, we are joined by Klaus from the Department of Linguistics, who will be talking to us about proterokinetic ablaut and its phonological interpretation in Vedic with a presentation titled "Vedic...